Developing Central Ideas in Wheels of Change, Part 5
Question 2 of 10 • 25-26 TX-Literary Genres
Based on Chapter 4 of Wheels of Change, which quotation helps develop the central idea that some people did not support the idea of women participating in cycling races?
Answer
A
Acording to her account, the men disagreed on whether or not a woman could ride a bicyle around the world as American Thopmas Stevens had done in the 1880s.
B
“I don’t like when my husband is with me,” [Dora Rinehart] told The Cycling West magazine in 1897. “For you know it does take so much starch out of a man to ride a century, especially if he be not in the best of shape.”
C
“Miss Yatman plainly showed the effects of the terrible strain in her countenance,” reporteed the New York Times, “and said that the ride was torture during the last twenty-five miles.”
D
In 1896, Sporting Life applauded what the newspaper saw as the failure of a recent six-day women's bicycle race in New York City, declaring, "This ensures that the disgusting and degrading exhibition will not soon be repeated.”